iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Thanks to @mrprofessor318.bsky.social I learned that Pony is turning 30 this year. Doing some quick math that means I was 11 when the song came out. I was OBSESSED with that song. To be fair I still kind of am. But where the hell were my parents?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbno...

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Ginuwine - Pony

YouTube video by GinuwineVEVO

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

What gender are prisons? Do we assign a gender to them? Asking for my sourdough starter.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Slowcooker or Instant Pot? Our slowcooker died over the Christmas break and now that we're in the market for another I'm wondering if we should go Instant Pot, never had one before. For context we are two adults and a cat who begs for our meat.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Put together what I'm sure will be the first of many terrariums today. 🌱

A large glass jar with a cork lid containing plants, moss, and soil.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Jaffa went nuts for his cucamelon 🌱

An orange and white cat leaning down to examine a cucamelon on the bed.

An orange and white cat with a cucamelon half sticking out of his mouth

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Mystery plant finally has a flower open! 🌱

A large yellow flower of a pumpkin plant with some leaves around it.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The balcony jungle is in fine form today 🌱

A large patch of green plants growing on a balcony along with a few red poppies that are looking pretty orange at the moment.

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Peppers Ghost @peppersghost.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The only Indiana Jones reboot I want to see is this one.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Did they really have to hurt me like this?

A screenshot of a video from the Doctor Who Youtube channel called 'Twenty Years of David Tennant as the Doctor' with two photos of David Tennant as The Doctor as the thumbnail.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Update on the mystery plant...it's looking more and more squash like to me! 🌱

A large leaf of an unknown plant growing on a balcony with red poppies growing behind it.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Had a random plant come up in my balcony garden. My plant ID app can't decide if it's cucumber, pumpkin, or some form of squash. I didn't plant any of those this year. Last year I tossed a bunch of random seeds into the space though so....yay plant adventure! 🌱

A large flat leaf of an unknown plant. It might be a pumpkin leaf.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I need a job where the whole thing is just coming up with ideas. Need an idea for a novel? I've got tons. Need an idea for a website? I've got way too many. I remember when I was 8 and I had an idea for a business doing people's grocery shopping and then taking it to their house...in 1994.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Nicest day of the year so far...so of course I'm sick. Having blocked sinuses when its 22c just isn't fair.

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The Neurodivergent Adult @thendadult.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Colin Killick from The Autistic Self Advocacy Network did an amazing job sticking up for autistic Americans after disgusting comments from the head of the Department of Health and Human Services that will only serve to spread hate and misinformation. #autism abcnews.go.com/US/video/aut...

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Video Autism advocate on RFK Jr.’s promised autism study

Colin Killick, executive director of the Autism Self Advocacy Network, joins ABC News Live to discuss how HHS Secretary RFK Jr.’s comments about autistic people impact the community.

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The Neurodivergent Adult @thendadult.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Trans women are women. Period.

A heart with a trans flag inside it and the words trans women are women.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I've been up since 3 in the morning so I'm too tired to properly rant but... an emojicast? Are they trying to appeal to 8 year olds? Are adults not mature enough to watch the pollen forecast without little sad faces?

A pollen forecast from a local news channel that uses emojis to show how bad it will be. They call it the Pollen Emojicast.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 12/04/2025

1/Every parent, educator & advocate should be alarmed: DHS agents tried to enter 2 LA elementary schools posing as “wellness checks”—targeting children who crossed the border alone. Superintendent Carvalho, once undocumented himself, called it out with “anger and contempt.” As he should. Kcalnews

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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Did you know the US House of Representatives passed the Save Act, which doesn't let women vote if they have a different last name from the one on their birth certificate? And by the way, if it passes no one can vote if they can't show their birth certificate. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Four House Democrats join Republicans to pass SAVE Act

Voting rights advocates warn GOP bill would disenfranchise millions of eligible voters

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

So just to keep up, the plan is, we’re going to raise tariffs so high no one can buy things, then we’re going to build factories with no OSHA protections, no pollution standards, no change to the minimum wage, and open to child labor. So we are partying like it’s 1899, that’s the plan.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Why are pistachios suddenly the in thing?

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Classic writer problem...you've got an idea for a setting but NO IDEA what to do with it. *Sighs and adds it to the collection*

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His Skeletoncy, the Ghoul of Hell @timhodgson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Today is the birthday of our little April Fool, Jaffa. He's officially the oldest person in the house now at the ripe old age of 8!

The face of a white and ginger cat named Jaffa.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Picture this... Muse, a Christmas Album. Filled to the brim with anti-Capitalism, destroy the rich songs done in an eerily cheerful fake Christmas cheer kind of way.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Nearly all the balcony tulips are open for the year. This one is by far my favorite! 🌱

A pink tulip with a white center that has fully opened to create a 6 pointed star.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I haven't been hyped for an MCU movie in a good long time. The last one I saw in the theater was Endgame. I am but a simple woman.... You put Loki in and that hype train starts to chug. All I want is for my boy to be reunited with his brother. Loki deserves his happy ending.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

3 and a half hours later she finally got the email sent! It contains 37 words and one pdf attachment. She won't remember how to do this five minutes from now.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Nothing is more agonizing than helping family with anything related to computers. No, gmail did not get deleted from your laptop.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

90% of why I love Reddit (despite its many flaws) are interactions like these... Brutal.

A screenshot of comments from reddit:

Unchainedboar: Funniest thing to me is Americans who don't realize how much of a shithole their country is.

thirteenfifty2: Hahah is that why your country has suffered decades of brain drain? Seethe loser, sorry to hear you come from low stock and your family never made it out.

Unchainedboar: Go pay some medical deductibles.

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The Neurodivergent Adult @thendadult.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I got 99 problems but eggs ain't one.

Dozens of eggs piled up with empty egg cartons next to it so you can choose your own eggs.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I've been paranoid about stinging nettle for days while weeding. I let down my guard while weeding around a catnip plant. This was the incorrect thing to do. 🌱

A small stinging nettle plant growing in a pot with weeds, tulips, and catnip.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Pulling up weeds that are already flowering is hard on the soul. 🌱

A small green plant with a tiny white flower in the middle.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I'm in a weird sort of head space today. I've realized that I'm older than my mother was when I met my husband. At this age she had 3 children, one who was legally an adult (me). She owned a home. She had a car, as most Americans do.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It amazes me how many weeds manage to take hold on a balcony. 🌱

A raised garden bed on a balcony filled with weeds

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I was so pleased with how cleanly this weed came up that I had to take a picture of it. Look how clean those roots are! 🌱

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

You know its Spring when... The first tulip blooms... The tree fuzzies are fuzzing! 🌱

A top down view of a yellow and red tulip just starting to open up.

The branches of a tree, bare with the exception of little fuzzy parts.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

What does it say about society that when I have a dream that wipes out the population the dream immediately goes to "Ooo, we can finally have a house of our own." And when telling my husband about the dream his first thought on hearing the population was wiped out was "We can get a house"

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onion person @junlper.beer · 05/03/2025

if you’re a liberal who doesn’t like us leftists and communists i am sorry but you need to realize this current democratic party needs to be completely destroyed, they are actively helping donald trump

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I've always hated white shoes. I don't know why, but they are the blue ink pen of the shoe world. And I 100% agree with this video. www.youtube.com/shorts/Iycmk...

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People who wear White sneakers do not f***!! #fashion #style #shoes

YouTube video by SubwayTakes

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The worst "upgrade" Windows has ever had was getting rid of the visuals for defragmenting.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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Maressa aka Shannon @maressa.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

For the love of bananas...why is shopping for a phone case so hard?!? I don't want to spend €50 for a really good case for a phone that is already 4 years old. I also don't want a POS that will be worthless in just a few months.

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